Thursday, September 20, 2007

with the RevoltechEVAs. I couldn't help but took the miniatures out from the display shelf and started changing their pose and snapping some shots of them. The articulation is simply amazing and its limitation is up to ones imagination.

What you looking at? Snipe!Bulls eye

Bent it like Keanu

Dodge this!

The Last Stand

Time to invest in a better camera and perhaps have a better 'studio' for my photo shoot. This toy collecting cum photo taking hobby seems to have taken a new dimension.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

when it comes to photography. These two Revoltechs are a mere 4.5 inch tall but they look as good as their full size counterparts. This is Kaiyodo's new release, Revoltech Miniature. Well, it's just another marketing ploy to 'milk' us collectors.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Featuring Variable Fighter (better known as Valkyrie or Valk for short) VF-1A Low Visibility from 'Do You Remember Love' of Macross.

This is supposedly a limited edition production and the price for this piece is sky high; approximately 200% above its original price.

Variable Fighters are transformable and it comes in three modes. The Fighter mode (plane), the Gerwalk (Ground Effective Reinforcement of Winged Armament with Locomotive Knee-joint) and the Battleroid (robot mode)Next up, we have the Super VF-1J with Fast Packs and it's piloted by the protagonist of the series, HikaruIchijyo in Macross, otherwise known as Rick Hunter in the Robotech series.

The Super VF-1J is featured in the animation series of the Super Dimension Fortress and is accompanied by the Super VF-1js of Max and Millia which I will feature the next time round.

These are manufactured by the Yamato group and they are of 1/48 scales. Highly detailed and are great display pieces with good articulation for great poses.

However, they can be very fragile and one wrong move could be disaster. Great caution must be exercised when handling them. Each valkyrie took me about 2 hours or so to transform, display and take pictures.

Well, although time consuming, it's all worth it. Did I mention I have 10 of these?

Friday, August 24, 2007

price; not really a heavy one but significantly enough to knock some sense into.

Guess I was feeling the guilt of not heeding to advice rendered.

Was at a car showroom on 21th (one day away from the second COE bidding). The fear that COE will further increased due to the fact that it has been steadily climbing, I made the decision to confirm the purchase of the car.

I was at total disbelief the moment the COE result was announced at 4pm on the 22nd. It was a decreased of $1991 from $18001 to $16010. Well, I would still consider myself lucky cos the Cat A drop was the most drastic, a whopping $8883 (from $17001 to $8118)! Thank god I did not go with the Airwave.

Well, this is sort of a lesson for me to really pay attention to the advice given and especially when that someone constantly has a strong intuition about how things will turn out.......

Friday, August 17, 2007

is where you place things which you have no space for at your actual home.

So, this is my office and these are my toys. By the way, it is not as if these are less important to me and that's why they are here. The main reason is I'm out of space at home and they actually came directly from the toy shop i.e. I did not take them home in the first place.

Cyber Units bought at the Takashimaya 10th Craziest Toy Sale in 2006.

Batman from various animation serious. Burger King Simpsons toys belongs to Freakazoid and they are definitely rare commodities.

Revoltechs out of their packaging. The complete Evangelion set in the first tier. Pat Labor and Getter1 in the second tier along with some Rockman candy toy and Microman Batman and Batgirl posing with Catwoman doing a kick.

This collection would be 5% of my collection. So where are the rest? Watch out for the subsequent entry.

Friday, August 10, 2007

For the uninitiated, these are the replicas of the Concept Camaro Bumblebee of the movie "THE TRANSFORMERS". This piece is distributed under TomyTakara (which is by the way better and slightly more costly) and the earlier Hasbro release was totally sold out and again they can be easily found on yahoo auction or ebay for a much higher price.

BTW, this time round I'm no scalper as the other piece was bought on behalf for a police officer.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

may be something more real than I expected. It all began with my obsessive toy collecting hobby.

There is always something that is limited to the masses and to make matters worst, there are those unscrupulous merchants or other wise commonly known as Scalpers( http://www.thefreedictionary.com/scalper )in the toy collecting community. What these people do is they will be the first to swipe every single item off the shelves. Then, the next moment, those things will be on sale either in their shops or online auction at ridiculous prices.

But today, I became a Scalper myself. I finally got my hands on the toy you see above (Transformers Alternators Ford GT Rodimus) and I decided I should buy two instead and sell it on yahoo to make some quick buck since this item is so HOT and the demand is so strong.

Well, guess that's what alteregoism is about. A hidden side just waiting to emerge.

Why Alterego? A Toy Blog of what I hold dear.

Childhood lost but found through toys which a boy would have liked to own

Ego Sniper

I'm Jon Loh of Singapore and toys are a part of me I can never shake off. It's like a bad addiction that is going to be stuck with me a long long while. I'm constantly on the snipe for any toys that fancy me. As long as I like it and as long as my wallet can handle it; It's mine!